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Universal Apps Trickle into the Windows Store to Save You Money

Universal Apps Trickle into the Windows Store to Save You Money is a post by Travis Pope from Gotta Be Mobile.

Microsoft only announced that it’d be introducing Universal Windows Apps at its BUILD 2014 conference earlier this month, but already users are starting to see them flow into the Windows and Windows Phone Store.

Updated listings for Halo: Spartan Assault and Skulls of the Shogun appeared overnight, with both of their pages now indicating that users can expect to purchase them once and have them available on their Windows Phone and Windows tablet, notebook or desktop.

Games aren’t the only ones getting some love. Xbox Music and Xbox Video also now qualify as universal apps. That development is slightly less exciting when you consider that Microsoft doesn’t require users to purchase those apps anyway. Still, it’s a step in the right direction and more Microsoft-made apps are sure to follow in the coming weeks and months. Presumably, apps made by other developers will follow too.

Downloads that are universal have a small indicator underneath their Buy button that says “Made for Windows Phones and Windows PCs” in the Windows and Windows Phone Stores. The trick is simple, Microsoft wants users to understand that its consumer products will work together, especially since they’re made by the same company. This new unified system makes apps a Windows-wide offering for users, and removes a big advantage that Android and iOS had over Windows. Both of those platforms allowed users to purchase apps for use on both their phones and tablets. Windows Phone and Windows users were forced to purchase the same games and apps twice. For example Halo: Spartan Assault would have cost users $4.99 on a Windows Tablet and a Windows Phone, each.

In reality, Universal apps are sort of like a mirror trick. Behind the scenes they are two separate apps, however Microsoft has unified its backend so that purchasing a version of an app on one of their platforms unlocks another version on the other. For now, developers still have to submit separate apps, but new changes to Windows Phone in